ἐκλύω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> v. [[λύω]]], [[set free]], πόνων from [[labour]]s, A.''Pr.''328; [[release]], ὕδατα ''PTeb.''49.6 (ii B. C.):—Pass., to [[be set free]], ἐκλέλυμαι πόθου Thgn. 1339; ἐκ δεσμῶν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Phaedo|Phd.]]'' 67d:—Med., [[get]] one [[set free]], [[release]], ἀλλ' ἄγε δή σε κακῶν ἐκλύσομαι Od.10.286; τοῦ φόβου σ' ἐξελυσάμην [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]'' 1003; θανάτου νιν ἐκλύσασθε E.''Andr.''818; ἐξελυσάμην βροτοὺς τὸ μὴ μολεῖν A.''Pr.''237: c. acc. pers. only, ἐξελύσαντο τοὺς Ἀργείους X.''HG'' 7.1.25: abs., [[ἐξελυσάμην]] = I [[deliver]]ed him from [[danger]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''531.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[unloose]], <b class="b3">ἐ. τόξα</b> [[unstring]] a [[bow]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.173; ἐ. ἁρμούς E.''Hipp.''825; <b class="b3">σκαιὸν ἐκλύσων στόμα</b> = [[likely]] to [[let loose]] a [[foolish]] [[tongue]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1225.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[make an end of]], <b class="b3">ἐξέλυσας..σκληρᾶς ἀοιδοῦ δασμόν</b> = paid it off, Id.''OT'' 35; ἐπίπονον ἁμέραν Id.''Tr.''654; μόχθον E.''Ph.''695; ἔριν καὶ φιλονικίαν D.9.14; [[ἐξελύσατε]] ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] ἐξελύσασθε) τὰς παρασκευάς Id.18.26.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[relax]], Arist.''HA''610a27; τῆς φροντίδος τὸ ἀκριβές Luc.''Dom.'' 17:—Pass., to [[be faint]], [[fail]], Hp.''Aph.''2.41, Isoc.15.59, D.19.224, Phld.''Ir.'' p.69 W., etc.; πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον Isoc.4.150; <b class="b3">ἐκλυθῆναι τοῖς σώμασι, τῇ ψυχῇ</b>, Arist.''Fr.''144, Plb.29.17.4 (so intr. in Act., J.''BJ''1.33.5), etc.; of things, to [[be unserviceable]], τὰ τῶν πλοίων ἐκλελυμένα Arist.''Pol.'' 1320b37; <b class="b3">ἐκλύεται ὁ ῥοῦς, τὰ ῥεύματα</b>, [[cease]], Plb.4.43.9, 4.41.5.<br><span class="bld">4</span> Medic., <b class="b3">ἐκλύω κοιλίαν</b> [[relax]] the [[bowel]]s, Dsc.4.169.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[pay in full]], [[δάνειον]] Plu.''Caes.''12 (Pass.).<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[purchase]], Herod.6.91.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[resolve]] a [[doubt]], in Pass., A.D.''Synt.''176.24; also <b class="b3">τὰ ὑπ' ἀμφιβολίαν πίπτοντα ἐκλύεται τοῦ ἀμφιβόλου</b> ib.311.11.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[dissolve]], τι ὄξει Gal.11.106.<br><span class="bld">III</span> intr., to [[break up]], [[depart]], [[LXX]] ''2 Ma.''13.16.